Gov. Scott Walker made his first public comments Friday since new charges surfaced in the secret John Doe investigation Thursday.

WISN 12 News heard something from the governor not heard before.

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What has changed is the governor's answer to an important question: Whether he has been called to testify before the judge in the John Doe investigation.

Previously, the governor had said that he had not been questioned in the case, but Friday he said he is not allowed to answer that question or any other details about the investigation.

During a jobs tour of a Wauwatosa manufacturing company, Walker faced questions for the first time about new developments in the John Doe investigation. Some of the questions he said he isn't able to answer.

"Have you or your attorneys been contacted as part of this investigation?" 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott asked.

"Again, with all those sorts of details, we made it clear for more than a year with our campaign collaborating, cooperating I should say, with the individuals looking into that," Walker said.

New charges on Thursday against two former Walker staffers brought the investigation closer to Walker's office as county executive. and raised new questions about, how close.

Anyone who has testified is under a gag order in the case, and during a taping of 12 News UPFRONT, Mike Gousha pressed the governor on that.

"Have you testified in front of the John Doe judge?" Gousha asked.

"Again, in all these thing, I've had my campaign cooperate for more than a year, and as you and other folks know, they basically say there are things that you can and can't talk about if you're going to continue to cooperate. We've fully cooperated, we will continue to cooperate," Walker said.

In light of the new charges and developments in the case, Wainscott asked the Walker the question that many people are wondering.

"All of this happening in your office, so close to where you were sitting, how could you not know this was happening?" Walker asked.

"For us, when we found out about Darlene Wink it was clear. Within hours of finding that out we asked her to resign, even though she had done a lot of great work for constituents, even though she was a very nice lady, she violated the terms of the policy we had set," Walker said. "And in this case, this is one where, clearly if we had no anybody else out that had done that, we would have applied the same standard."

The governor has not been linked to any wrongdoing or illegal activities in this John Doe case, but the criminal complaint released Thursday spells out, with maps and graphics, exactly how close the activity was to the then county executive's office.